Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond

John Newland:
[episode introduction] What you are about to see is a matter of human record. Explain it: we cannot. Disprove it: we cannot. We simply invite you to explore with us the amazing world of the Unknown... to take that One Step... Beyond.

John Newland:
[closing statement] Next week, and every week, we'll be bringing you the personal records of the rarest kind of human experience: man's adventure in the world of the unknown, that mysterious psychic world beyond our five senses. This is your invitation to take with us that astonishing... one step beyond.

Blake:
Perhaps half of believing is being able to accept the unusual.

[introduction]

John Newland:
Have you ever been certain your telephone would ring in the next ten seconds? Or have you ever walked down a strange street and had the feeling that you knew what lay beyond the unturned corner? Yes? Then you've had a brief encounter with the world of the unknown. You are ready for the actual human experience that follows.

[first lines]

Mrs. Horvath:
Emmy, time to set the table.

John Newland:
Emmy Horvath, age 12. Farm girl. Helping her mother with the chores. How perfectly normal. Certainly a most unlikely channel for the supernormal, the psychic, isn't she? But don't you believe it.

[last lines]

Jed Horvath:
Emmy, I was never mad at you. Well, mostly I was just scared.

[afterword]

John Newland:
Scared? Of what? Of a strange gift that was given for just a little while? Of a gift that saved the lives of two children. A man frightened of a miracle. How much more frightening, how really terrifying, if there were no miracles.

Helga:
Oh, Theo, what happened to us?

Theo:
What we let happen.

[first lines]

John Newland:
Have you ever had the feeling that you knew what someone was going to say just before he said it? Or have you ever walked into a strange room and had the sensation that you'd been there before? Well if you have, you've taken a small step beyond.

John Newland:
No inanimate object can have a personality we are told. But we forget... for example, we look at a house and we say it's cheerful, melancholy, gloomy. Now what we're doing, of course, is simply describing our own reactions. There are some cases, however, that seem to defy this handy explanation. On the New England coast, even today, there are certain houses which can be classified only as... unfriendly.

[Andrew wants to rent an old New England mansion, but Ellen isn't so sure]

Ellen Courtney:
Honey, let's go.

Andrew Courtney:
Let's go? Let's go in!

John Newland:
Everything in this room could tell a hundred stories, but this boxing glove was involved in a most unusual occurrence when on September 17, 1944 that dark and heavy curtain to the world beyond our five senses - the psychic world - was lifted for a moment.

Wilhelm Reitlinger:
[counting the cartridges from his Luger] Eight... there should be nine. There should be nine! There should be nine!

Wilhelm Reitlinger:
[after shooting Karnak dead] This they will believe.

Major Lamarr:
[to Capt. Tremaine] Cheer up, Captain. You did a good job. Better than they *deserved*.

Sergeant Vy:
[to Capt. Tremaine] If I had told them that I saw Noah's Ark pass by, would *that* have saved us?